Twitter is testing relaxed character limits for replies

Oct27

by Sindy Cator on October 27, 2016 at 5:43 am

Last month, Twitter made a major change to its platform: It stopped counting media attachments like photos, videos, GIFs, polls, and quoted tweets toward the 140-character limit per tweet. TechCrunch found that the company is now testing another way to let users say more in tweets. In a limited trial for some users on mobile, Twitter is no longer counting usernames against your character limit in replies. That means that when you’re responding to a single user or a bunch of them, you’ll be able to reply with all 140 characters. That marks the sinking of the Twitter canoe, which…